Ancient 'wealthy' young woman was found laid to rest with her horse and weapons by workers who accidentally dug up her burial mound.

Wooden statue 5.3m high with eight faces gazed over the water for only two decades, but leaves us with a conundrum 11,600 years later.

Culture on edge of Siberia was 'as advanced' as in Middle East, then considered to be the apex of development.

Twice as old as the Egyptian Pyramids, samples of the Shigir Idol are sent to Germany for testing.

Mummified potentate and wife were found in burial mound 42 metres in diameter, and they went to the next life alongside 9 geldings, saddled and harnessed.

Scientists close to precise dating of the Shigir Idol, twice as ancient as the Egyptian Pyramids.

When Vadim Kolpakov went on an expedition to the north of Irkutsk region, he had no inkling of the sensational discovery he was about to make.

Startling new footage shows how a ‘mountain moved’, trees were ‘beheaded’, and blocks of river ice ‘flew’ onto the land.

Almost 3 million hectares on fire, including Arctic, with fumes having hit area larger than European Union.